The U.S. is opening its first Rare Earth mine in more than 70 years— providing a critical supply of six of the seventeen Rare Earth elements that are used in everything from war planes to semiconductors to our smartphones.
This is a crucial step toward breaking China’s stranglehold on rare earths, but let’s not pretend Washington’s sudden interest in mineral independence isn’t hypocritical. The Brook Mine project—Wyoming’s first new coal operation in 50 years—exposes the absurdity of D.C.…
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